The Sky Is Gray - thoughts

The passage I found interesting was that of the lady and the boy at the dentist on page 100.

"You really don't believe in God?" the lady says.
"No," he says.
"But why?" the lady says.
"Because the wind is pink," he says.


At first I was confused about what he meant and then I realized that he was saying he didn't believe in God because other people told him to believe in him and he believes something else. In order to prove God exists he wants him to show himself. Similarly, many African Americans believed they were inferior because that's what they were taught to think. In reality they didn't need to believe the white man's word. They needed to believe in themselves and use their intelligence to question the many troubles they were going through.